Who's News This Week Delos Whesle or Lovelace
A collage of wartime profiles highlights Omar Bradley as the new commander of the American Second Army, with praise for his steady rise from West Point to battlefield leadership. Sir Arthur Tedder is described as a strategic air leader, and Laurence A. Steinhardt noted for multilingual diplomacy in a shifting Allied axis.
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Delos Whesle Or
Lovelace
Marshall
MacArthur
Stilwell
Patton
Paul Bunyan
Bradley
Second Corps
West Point
Command and General Staff School
War College
Infantry
Ft. Benning
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Ankara
Steinhardts
Axis
Turkey
Steinhardt
Roosevelt
FDR
White House
Sweden
Russia
Peru
Samuel Untermyer
New York City
Columbia University
Arthur W. Tedder
Hitler
Casablanca
Oran
Bizerte
Tunis
Home care tips and wartime mail facts
Practical advice on home repairs cooking and preservation from a period guide. Includes plant soil lightening methods food storage tips silverware care and bottle cork sealing. Also notes service member cigarette preferences Camel brand popularity and mailing restrictions for overseas shipments.
Quiz with Answers on TH R Topics Across Subjects
A compact trivia list asks ten questions on topics from transport and history to geography and language. It includes queries about a funicular railway the Children’s Crusade year and Mt Etna plus terms like quid pro quo and bombardier’s eye with brief prompts.
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Holy Land
India
U. S. Navy
United States
Mt. Etna
Answers on a railway run by cable and a bombsight tale
The entry notes a cable operated railway, cites the year 1212, and states two thirds and eighty five percent. It mentions Treasure Island in San Francisco capable of feeding 6000 men in 40 minutes, Penasse Minnesota, and something of equivalent value in return. It lists Byron and Sicily and describes bombardiers using a rubber eye piece leaving a black ring on the face, with cadets proudly refusing to wash it off for days.
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Treasure Island
San Francisco
Penasse
Minn
Byron
Sicily
Fish Hooks Added to Liferaft Equipment
Lifeboats and rafts now carry fishing kits with dehydrated pork rinds a floating knife hooks rigs a dip net cotton gloves and waterproof instructions. The update expands survival provisions for crews at sea.
Largest Bible built by carpenter in Los Angeles
A massive Bible claimed to be the world’s largest was created over two years by a carpenter and his wife in Los Angeles. The book measures 43 by 34 inches, is 34 inches thick, weighs about 1,094 pounds, spans 8 feet 2 inches when open, contains 32 sections and 8,048 pages, and was produced on a hand stamping machine.
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Los Angeles
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Consolidated Features
WIN
York
Omar N. Bradley
Arthur
France
Royal Flying Force
Boche
Meuse
Argonne
RFF
RAF
Tedder
Mediterranean Air Command
Luftwaffe
England
Cairo
Sir Arthur
Cambridge
Magdalene College
Barbara Bell
Malaya
Netherlands Indies
Bfgoodrich
Ron
Riorae
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
U. S
Kellogg’s
Kellogg's
Hea Watley
Navy
Army
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
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